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For Strata Committees & Owners Corporations
Advice about compliance with all legal requirements
STRATA LAW
- Strata Schemes Management Act
- Strata Schemes Development Act
- Community Land Management Act
- Community Land Development Act
- Environmental Planning and Assessment Act
- Home Building Act
- Design & Building Practitioners Act
- Residential Apartment Buildings (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Act
- Real Property Act
- Conveyancing Act
- Dividing Fences Act
- Decisions of the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, NCAT Appeal Panel, NCAT Tribunal Members, jurisdictions other than NSW; and
- All laws affecting strata schemes.
- Community schemes
- Precinct schemes
- Neighbourhood schemes.
- Building Management Committees and Strata Management Statements, including general advice, compliance and amendments.
Need help with your Strata issues?
Whether you’re an owner, tenant, or part of the strata committee, dealing with disputes or unclear responsibilities under the NSW Strata Law can be frustrating. Let us help you navigate the legal process and reach practical, timely solutions.
Strata and Community Dispute Resolution
- Mediation; Notices to Comply; NCAT Consumer & Commercial Division; Supreme Court; District Court; and Local Court.
- Disputes with builders, developers, neighbours, service providers, and lot owners.
- Settlement agreements with builders, developers, neighbours, service providers, and lot owners.
- Dividing fences and other disputes with neighbours relating to trees, tree roots, nuisances generally, and development works.
- Compulsory management. We can advise on any claims for the appointment of a compulsory manager to a strata scheme.
- Repairs and maintenance: we can advise on claims for the repair and maintenance of common property, consequential damage to lot property, and compensation claims for losses suffered by owners.
- Unauthorised works.
- Disability discrimination.
Access agreements
- Cranes; rock anchors; scaffolding; safety equipment; sewer/stormwater diversions; vehicles; encroachments; easements; support from and to neighbouring land etc.
Insurance
- Advice about policy terms, claims and disputes; home warranty insurance claims and disputes.
Levy recovery
- Letters of demand; recovery action, including court proceedings, bankruptcy, statutory demands; documented payment plans
Management & Contracts
- Building Management Agreements, Strata Managing Agency Agreements, Service Agreements, Security Services Agreements; Cleaning contracts; tender documents; remedial works contracts; termination of management agreements.
- Advice about, and drafting of, construction contracts.
- Owners agreements to facilitate developer sales.
By-laws
- Review current by-laws and recommend amendments and additions; advise on by-laws proposed by lot owners; advise on breaches and enforcement action; advise on disputes about the validity and enforceability of by-laws.
- By-law drafting
- Complex By-laws
- Special By-laws
- Ordinary By-laws
- Preparing consolidations: ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Enforcement: Notices to Comply & Penalty applications
Meeting Procedures
- Drafting and advising on all forms of motions and meeting notices and whether they are compliant.
- Ruling motions out of order.
- Advising on the form and validity of proxies.
- Attending meetings to give advice about contentious or sensitive matters.
Disputes
- Compulsory management.
- Repair and maintenance of common property.
- Claims for compensation.
- Defects claims.
- By-law disputes and by-law validity.
- Refusal to make a common property rights by-law.
Need help with your Strata issues?
Whether you’re an owner, tenant, or part of the strata committee, dealing with disputes or unclear responsibilities under the NSW Strata Law can be frustrating. Let us help you navigate the legal process and reach practical, timely solutions.
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